Palestinian president to undergo heart test

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has been hospitalized on Thursday to undergo a heart test, according to an AP report.

Abbas, 81, was taken to a hospital in the West Bank city of Ramallah after feeling “tired.” He will undergo a cardiac catheterization, according to an official quoted by the agency.

“President Mahmoud Abbas conducted medical tests today in the consultant hospital in Ramallah. All the results of the tests carried out so far confirmed that he is in good health,” Saeb Erekat, the secretary-general of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, according to The Telegraph.